A Survey of Islamic Astronomical TablesThe source material for the study of medieval oriental astronomy consists of Byzantine Greek, Sanscrit, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish astronomical and astrological manuscripts. If one desires to build up a detailed picture of Islamic astronomy, one can choose material from these available manuscripts. Of these manuscripts it is possible to isolate a group of works, the "zijes". A "zij" consists of the numerical tables and accompanying explanation sufficient to measure time and to compute planetary and stellar positions, appearance, and eclipses. This paper is a survey of the number, distribution, contents, and relations between "zijes" written in Arabic or Persian during the period from the 8th through the 15th centuries. Illustrations. Oversize. |
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abstracted Abū al-Wafā Abū Ma'shar Aḥmad al-Battāni al-Fahhad al-Farisi al-Farisi 54 al-Munajjim Almagest anomaly apogee Arabic argument Az-Zij Baghdad Berlin Birūni Buyid calendar Caussin chapters Chron climates computed to minutes computed to seconds computed to three copy Damascus deferent digits distance ECLIPSE THEORY entries epicycle extant Fihrist firdaria given gives Ḥabash Hijra Hindu HKh vol Ibn Yūnis 14 integer degree interpolation scheme Iran Islamic astronomy Khwarizmi Krause Leiden Maliki Manşūr manuscript mean motions methods minutes of arc moon Muḥammad Mumtaḥan Nachtr Nallino non-extant observations parallax parameters Persian PLANETARY EQUATIONS PLANETARY LATITUDES PLANETARY SECTORS planets Ptolemaic Risa'il Sasanian Schoy seconds of arc Seleucid set of tables Sindhind 28 solar and lunar solar eclipses SPHERICAL ASTRONOMICAL FUNCTIONS star table Suppl Suter table f table of solar tabular differences Theon three fractional places three places tions transl translation Treatise Ulugh Beg Yaḥyā Yazdigird Zij-i zijes
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Page 42 - Browne. Completed and edited with a memoir of the author and a bibliography of his writings by RA Nicholson.
Page 42 - Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian MSS. in the Oriental Public Library, Bankipore.
Page 12 - The instant at which the sun crosses the vernal equinoctial point is called year-transfer (tahwll as-sina) and was considered to be of great significance. Even to the present in Iran the situation of the individual at the moment of transfer is supposed to affect his destiny through the corning year.
Page 43 - Burgess, E., Translation of the SuryaSiddhanta, a textbook of Hindu astronomy .... reprinted from the edition of 1860, Univ. of Calcutta, 1935.
Page 16 - Hindu Astronomy at Newminster in 1428," Annals of Science, vol. 8, 1952, pp. 221-228.
Page 8 - Al-Kashi's Iteration Method for the Determination of Sin 1°,
Page 22 - This zij also contains the Almagest table of solar and lunar parallax in the altitude circle.
Page 15 - Persian influence, all the information is consistent, and this parameter can be accepted as well attested.